𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐑𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐧

✦ this story contains mature content. 18+ only. ✦

trigger warnings apply: psychological manipulation, cheating, obsession, violence, emotional trauma, addiction, and possessive relationships.
reader discretion is strongly advised.

☁︎ ❀ ☾ 𝓈𝒶𝓃𝒸𝓉𝓊𝓂 ☾ ❀ ☁︎
you don't walk away from love like his.
you crawl. bleeding.

salem maybank was seventeen when she gave her heart to rafe cameron-not knowing he'd take the rest of her with it.

now she's twenty, and she's still his.
even after the lies. even after the blood.
even after the nights he didn't come home.

they say love is patient. love is kind.
but this isn't love.
this is devotion with a death wish.

𓆩♡𓆪

set in the quiet space between season 3 and season 4 of Outer Banks, this story reimagines canon with salem-JJ's older sister, raised in the wreckage of the Cut, now bound to the boy she was never supposed to want.

ward cameron is dead. the island has fallen quiet.
but behind the walls of tanneyhill, rafe is unraveling-
and salem is the only one who's still watching him break.

what began as passion turned to poison.
and now, with secrets crawling back from the dark and rafe slipping further into silence, salem has to ask herself the question she's never dared to speak:

if he's no longer yours,
then who the hell are you without him?

𓆩❖𓆪
told in first person pov-his or hers.
flashbacks. false promises.
a love that will burn you alive just to feel warm.
𓆩❖𓆪

welcome to sanctum
they were never meant to survive this.